Nevzer G. Stacey founded HasNa Inc. in 1998. Her background comprises five years as a study director for international labor standards at the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, where she was also the resident expert on transitions from education to the workplace; twenty years of service as a volunteer mediator in the Washington, DC court system; and thirty years at the U.S Department of Education, where worked on school-to-work issues and represented the U.S in international projects sponsored by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the World Bank. She has a master's degree in international organizations and Middle East area studies from American University's School of International Service. Ms Stacey was born in Istanbul, Turkey.